Larry Kimmel

Larry Kimmel was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. He holds degrees from Oberlin Conservatory and Pittsburgh University, and has worked at everything from steel mills to libraries. His poetry also appears in numerous anthologies, most recently, "Morning Song: Poems for New Parents," published by St. Martin's Press. He lives with his wife in the hills of Western Massachusetts.

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silently in a snapshot

you are saying something

and look wonderful saying it

the fall leaves are gray

and your smile

is forever *

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*a cherita from: shards and dust

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I Step Out on My Porch Near Midnight

Snow,

flecked by moon made mica.

Cold, windless air--even

the roar of the woods

is faint tonight;

And faint, too,

the creak

of my leather jacket--faint

As the rigging of a galleon

heard across the seas of time . . .

While overhead

Orion faintly flickers.